Okay so first, some background for anyone who hasn't heard of The Phantom Pain at all. The Game was announced along with a trailer at the spike VGA's on the 7th of December 2012 by a Swedish developer known as Moby Dick Studios. A lot of speculation has been made however that this game is in fact Metal Gear Solid 5 (which would be great! personally I never went in for the metal gear titles that were outside of the main saga). Anyway, people are saying that The phantom pain is MGS5, and that Moby Dick is a fake studio. Is Hideo Kojima playing tricks?
You'll need to watch the trailer to follow what i'm going to be saying as I look into the hints that suggest that finally MGS5 is on it's way. Just click the link below.
The Trailer!
Looks good right? If a little odd, and i'm sure many MGS fans can spot a few links already but let me break it down for you. The one you just watched is the 'alternative version' which is the same visuals but with a different soundtrack.
"We hope this new version will provide you with a new perspective" - Moby Dick Studios.
Well to me it makes the game seem a lot more survival horror than anything else but we'll soon see.
Moby Dick Studios
This unknown Swedish studio that supposedly developed the game has literally come out of thin air, leaving many people questioning if it is a real company. The companies website was created three days before the game was announced and the trailer was shown at the Spike VGA's. In addition to this the studios head is Joakim Mogren. The first name is an anagram of Kojima. Coincidence? I think not. Finally, several members of the Moby Dick staff were reportedly seen in the Konami VIP area at the VGA's.
The odds are stacking up against this Swedish development team.
The Title
One of the most blatant clues as to this being a MGS game is this, if you take the font used at the end and type out 'Metal gear solid V' it fits perfectly into the missing gaps in the letters and with the extra lines that can be seen.
Now I'm as skeptical about this as anyone, but that's a hell of a coincidence! Some people are saying that it's Metal Gear Solid Vita not 'V' but the Moby Dick website states that the game is for PS3 and Xbox360 so it seems unlikely.
Two cases have sprung up with twitter.
The first and more significant of the two is Hideo kojima's tweets about some motion capture work that he was doing in June 2012.
These tweets include...
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In addition to this car crash and the hospital bed mo-caps Kojima tweeted about Wire work, Surgery and combat training for actors.
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The second thing from the world of twitter was David Hayter replying to a question he was asked.
“@aganej2: @DavidBHayter so what was your take on The Phantom Pain trailer?” It made my arm hurt."
I doubt i'm the only person that thinks David Hayter is hinting at something here...
Clues in the Trailer
The trailer is full of little (and big) things that are reminiscent of previous MGS games, now maybe Moby Dick are heavily inspired by the work of Konami and Kojima. My guess: Konami want to build as much hype as they can.
FLOWERS
When our protagonist wakes up he reaches up to try and catch some petals floating above him. Familiar aren't they? That's because if you played MGS3 you saw them EVERYWHERE when you fight The Boss, they're a bitch too since they help her camo.
PSYCHO MANTIS?
There is speculation that the figure in the lift and the one that floats above the ground at the end of the trailer is Psycho Mantis. Admittedly, He/She does float in a very Mantis way. On the other hand we've had other characters like him so maybe it isn't? I get the impression that the figure is about to save 'snake' so that could be interesting to see if it is Mantis. 
VOLGIN
Hey there crazy electric guy! except.. err.. on fire this time...
If this isn't a hallucination of Volgin (MGS3) then what is?
You can telll by his suit, the patter and the colour of it
OTHER
Well where to start? well, as the saying goes, before we walk we must crawl; just like our protagonist! Notice how he moves forwards, it seems to be a lot like how snake does. This guy is in pain clearly, remember when snake was hurting the most? One word. Microwave. When our protagonist knocks over the table in the hospital ward, he crawls exactly like snake in the microwave tunnel.
The Nurse in the background is wearing clothes VERY similar to the clothes that were used when Kojima productions previewed the FOX engine. I mean everyone likes a nurse but the exact same nurse?
Big Boss lost limbs in the Outer Haven battle, so for anyone who's thinking "but the guys is missing an arm how can it be snake?" There is your answer! Another theory is that he is in a dream, or that he is hallucinating which would explain why we see a huge flaming whale.
The guy on fire standing in the hallway looks familiar too. That's because it's snake! well possibly, but this is all speculative... right? The pose is practically identical to the game cover for Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes, People have even pointed out that he is wearing the sneaking suit from portable ops. Snake? maybe but then again it could be another vision of Volgin. Short sleeves, the pattern on the legs even. Maybe not, but it's a possibility.
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR MANKIND?
Well. Good question.
The Tagline for Ground Zeroes is "From Fox two phantoms were born" and the image is often seen mirrored so that the text is backwards. This Could mean many things really.
Snake and the 'bad guy' from Ground Zeroes? Maybe, they are both shown to be part of (or at least once were part of) in the Ground zeroes trailer. That trailer certainly makes it seem that way. The 'bad guy' or as I call him 'Gnarly face' seems to have burns scars covering his face, maybe he is the other man in the Phantom Pain trailer?
Two games using the Fox engine. It is possible that these two games will be the first to use the new mulit-platforming engine created by Kojima productions. This is EXCITING news by the way, I'll be talking about it soon but if you can't wait then look it up.
Solid and Liquid? Now this is a long shot but it is possible that these two games somehow connect with 'Les enfants Terribles' and the cloning of big boss. (Yeah I don't have anything else on this, just an idea).
I think this definitely means that the two games are connected though; I mean the use of the word phantom in the tagline, they both seem to use the fox engine and all of the things that suggest this is metal gear, are we in for a two part game? or two interlinked but entirely separate games? Whatever it is, it looks like it'll be worth the wait.
So what do you think? are we looking at MGS5? let me know your thoughts!
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